Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian <at> googlemail.com> writes: [clip] > For backward compatibility we *cannot* change S. > Maybe we could change the meaning of 'a' but it would be safer > to add a new dtype, possibly 'S' can be deprecated in favor > of 'B' when we have a specific encoding dtype.
Note that the rename 'S' -> 'B' was not done in the Python 3 port, because 'B' already denotes uint8, >>> np.array([1], dtype='B') array([1], dtype=uint8) -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
